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• first name: April
• last name: Monoceros
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• 4k Windows final stage by 0x4015
• Came here after reading a thread about how all the great 4ks were released a decade ago, but remembering seeing this live at Revision. And being amazed at so many 4ks at both Revision and Evoke in 2017.
  
  This is one of my favorites, because it tells a coherent story; the effects aren't just amazing effects -- they're used to tell a story. All the way up to the end.
• rulezadded on the 2018-03-05 20:20:43
• demo Windows Java Love Story by Monoceros
• Quote:

  There should be a secret ending to this where the youngest child is a hooved whale. :p

  ...great, now I want us to add a post credit screen with that and a thought bubble saying, "Mommy?".
• isokadded on the 2017-08-25 19:45:32
• demo Windows Java Love Story by Monoceros
• ...and then we commented on the same thing at the same time. We're totally coordinated.
• isokadded on the 2017-08-25 19:38:14
• demo Windows Java Love Story by Monoceros
• Quote:

  also first things you do is to state that it won the newcomer award AND selfvote up.

  
  
  Quote:

  Thumbing up (or down) your own prods or those of your groupmates is considered BM

  
  For what little it's worth, I stated that it won the Newcomer Award (because it seemed pertinent. It still finished 9th of 10 for a reason.), and Dusty (Meganoceros) voted up the prod. The only connection was that I told Dusty to make an account so I could add credits for her.
  
  But thanks for the etiquette lesson on the site, regardless. After Dusty put in her comment, we discussed that very issue.
  
  ...and while the other comments are surely at least partially tongue in cheek, I do hope that at least some people enjoyed our attempt at telling a story. Thanks for the encouragement.
• isokadded on the 2017-08-25 19:36:28
• demo Windows Java Love Story by Monoceros
• Quote:

  will the sequel feature unicorns and whales instead? :)

  With a name like "Monoceros", you can expect a unicorn. We'll keep our current ideas as a surprise for the moment, though. :)
  
  
  Quote:

  what kind of sought-after talent did you expect this demo to showcase w.r.t. the employment message at the end?

  I'd hope that it'd showcase that we can learn new things and plan and execute a project. Still, it's less that we expected it to be a showcase (I'm a CS grad student with no graphics background, and Dusty is an IT consultant on medical software), and more something we tossed in in the hopes that we might find a lead somewhere. We'd like to stay in Europe, go to more demo parties, and make more demos, but we're trying to figure out how.
  
  In other words, we wanted to make a demo, and enjoy making things with computers. Anything else was icing.
  
  
  Quote:

  Starting off by modeling real-life (let alone animate) objects...Kudos for taking risks.

  Thanks. And doing that animation with Processing was a large part of what took a lot of the time in making it, I think. I know it looks far from perfect, and we hope to use an object standard (and something other than Processing) next time that allows us to move bones, but hopefully we did it well enough to get the story across. Even if we did have birds flying backwards, once.
• isokadded on the 2017-08-25 15:38:45
• wild Animation/Video Creatures of the Beach by Poo-Brain [web]
• I saw this at the party, and my review is with that mindset.
  
  The view and the splicing of everything together were enjoyable. I like the video, and it seems like a nice art project.
  
  The only issue I had is that I wanted it compressed into two or three minutes. A different time and place and I likely would have appreciated the length more.
• isokadded on the 2017-08-25 13:23:20
• demo Windows Java Love Story by Monoceros
• -Won the Newcomer Award
  -YouTube link:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpUMWNv9BRo
  
  -Needs about a gig of memory to get into the demo
  -Made with Processing libraries
  -Aptly shows that we're beginners at this whole demo-making thing.
  -Was mostly made over the month before the party, but planned earlier than that.
  -Is hopefully entertaining
• isokadded on the 2017-08-25 13:16:19